ETHEL’s HomeBaked round III

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

The musically omnivorous string quartet ETHEL, whom The New York Times has described as “indefatigable and eclectic” and The New Yorker has deemed “vital and brilliant,” returns to National Sawdust to present the third chapter of ETHEL’s HomeBaked project. With its focus on emerging NYC-based composers, the project, which began in 2010, has already produced eight compositions, many of which have entered …

$35

Yalini Dream and Ganavya Doraiswamy’s Aikyam

Art Cafe 884 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Set 1 | Yalini Dream w/ special guests: Jendog Lonewolf, Varuni Tiruchelvam & reg e. gaines Set 2 | Aikyam  Ganavya Doraiswamy (vocals) Sharik Hasan (piano) Rajna Swaminathan (mrudangam) Max Ridley (bass) w/ special guests Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy (violins) Featured Women’s Organization: Women’s World Banking ------- Yalini Dream  llankai Tamil Blood, Manchester Born, …

$15

Vital Signs: Documentary about the future of Classical Music

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

This is the premiere of Vital Signs – a documentary series about the future of classical music by director J.M. Harper (produced by Lonelyleap). Made over the last four years, it features artists like Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Caroline Shaw, yMusic (The National, Bon Iver, St. Vincent), Son Lux, Nico Muhly, …

$20

FREE: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

FREE: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

Innova Recordings label showcase

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show  Miya Masaoka Eleonore Oppenheim Mari Kimura Bohemian Trio Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, …

$29

Turquoise Lake

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show  Humayun Khan and Douglas J. Cuomo have formed Turquoise Lake, an eight-piece ensemble of musicians from a variety of improvisational traditions to create music that blends the raga tradition of North India and Afghanistan, Farsi poetry of the great Sufi masters, and Afghan folk melodies and ghazals, with western jazz and rock …

$35

Roomful of Teeth & Nick Zammuto

Merkin Hall (Kaufman Center) 129 W. 67th St., New York, United States

The omnivorous sonic explorations of Nick Zammuto (The Books) come together with the equally far-reaching soundworld of Grammy-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, who explore the full range of the human vocal apparatus, from Tuvan throat singing and yodeling to Korean P’ansori and Persian classical singing. The performance features new works by Zammuto and others …

$25

Philip Glass and Kora virtuoso Foday Musa Suso

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show Pre-show talk with Robert Thurman and Philip Glass Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso famously collaborated on the album The Screens composed as music for a production of the play by Jean Genet, the score for the film Powaqqatsi, and on the concert work Orion. As part of a celebration of Philip …

$50

Unremembered: A Song Cycle in 13 parts

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show Unremembered is an hour-long, thirteen-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra, and electronics by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer and visual artist Nathaniel Bellows (W.W. Norton, HarperCollins). A meditation on memory, innocence, and the haunted grandeur of the natural world, Unremembered recalls strange and beautiful happenings experienced …

$29